Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-10
WINE, WOMEN AND DEATH
THREE SENSATIONS AT THE
CAPITAL IN A DAY.

tae supreme Court hands DOWN aus
Decision in the Wine Room Cases -
4 Travelling Man Charges His Wife
With Faithlessness A Boy Falls
From Window and Dies.
ATLANTA, GA, March 9.-The follow
hg Supreme Court decisions were handed
lown to-day;
Fritz Menken VS.. the City of Atlanta.
Affirmed.
J. L. Griffin VS.. the same. Affirmed.
81. J. Mabra VS.. the same. Affirmed.
x. F. Hamlin VS.. Rogers, Worsnam ~
Co.; from the City Court of Macon. Al
irmeG.
The first three are the celebrated liquor
Eases which went up from the City Court
" Atlanta. the parties being charged
with violating the city ordinance against
he keeping Of liquors for unlawful sale.
n the first case, Menken was the driver
II a city delivery wagon of the Atlanta
Brewery, who set no, through him, the
lain OF vested rights under their char
er. The decision covers all the points
avolyed, and was delivered by Chiet
Justice Bleckley. The court held;
l. AS long as the owner ofliquors retains
Possession of them, intending TO denver
hem on an unlawful contract OF sale,
lucn possession Is within municipal or
finance, which prohibits the keeping OF
iuch liquors for unlawful sale.
2. An agent having actual possession
Ind participating in the unlawful pur-
bose is equally guilty with his principal.
. g. That the offender will be liable to
4 Prosecution under a statute for unlawful
81 telling vehen the sale is consummated
viii not hinder his being punished under
ihe ordinance for keeping Tor unlawful
hale.
- The local option legislation Of this
waite being constitutional as valid ex-
lrcIse of the police power, it follows that
The Incidental effects upon the value or
property, such as a brewery and it's NIX
lures, resulting from the inability OF the
owners to adjust their old business to The
aew law, is damnum absque inJura-the
law does not take or damage their prop
srty Tor use of the public, but only pre-
vents them from taking or damaging the
III blic for their use.
5. The express saving OF vested rights IN
be local option act embraces previous
scquired rights to sell by virtue OF a
license already taken out and paid Tor,
tut compFehends no right either 20 OBJ
ain new license or TO sell without
license, whether on the part Of natural
ierso1s or corporations. The act is not
'sscheme Tor stopping the sale Of liquors
w natural persons and leaving the Dusi-
less to be carried on by chartered COM
Anies.
A SOCIAL SCANDAL.
A. social scandal came to the surface at
tlate hour last night, aud mas been the
ak of the gossips all day. A travelling
nan. we'll known and well liked here,
Who lives in Atlanta, found young ply
jieian OF the city in the bedroom OF his
wife at midnight under circumstances
Fhich confirmed suspicious ne has enter
hgned for some months. He was I'M
rmed, but made a desperate attack on
he intruding son of Ksculapius,
Tho fed without standing on
he order OF his going. There was bur-
led pursuit, but the fugitive finally made
he haven of his own room, where his own
pouse, not knowing the cause Of the af.
air. protected him from further assault.
fhe injured husband came down town,
There he poured out the tale OF his woes
nd searched for deadly weapons. In
he meantime his wife took her children
nd left home, going to neighbours
shere they have since remained. Her
siends assert her innocence and claim
nat the husband is craZed by jealousy,
nd that the ugly affair he reports had TO
Existence except in mis- own being. There
as even been talk of trying him on a
ait of lunacy. There have been no
arther developments. The parties stand
seIl. and the scandal is a source of gen.
faeregret.
CRIMINAL MOTIVE ALLEGED.
Marion Sanders, Sheriff OF Sumter,
cunty, S. c., called at the executive Of
0ee to-day, and presented requisition
rom the Governor of South Carolina for
ames w. Budd, now of Coffee county,
IA. charging him with Obtaining $65
1orth Of merchandise in Sumter
c., under misrepresentation. The
Governor being absent no action could be
hken upon it, and the officer returned TO
outh Carolina. In connection with this
ase there is on file in the Governors Of
&c a communication from a magistrate
Coffee county, inclosing two afidavIts,
nd the facts presented induce the belief
nat the effort TO get Budd back TO South
aroIina lie made TO induce his daughter
go also, and that for an immoral pur-
ese. The case will be carefully investi-
sted.
ALL MUST MAKE STATEMENTS.
A. question growing out of the failure OF
erfain assessment insurance companies
} file semEannual reports and the for
liture OF the license 10 do business was
admitted TO the Attorney General, the
ofnt being whether assessment eompa-
les were required to make semI,annual
tatements as other companies. The At
rney General decides sfirmatiyely.
The Etowah Iron and Manganese Com
any was organized to-day by the cleo
on Of nine directors and tue following
beers: ]. W. Rankin, President; l.. j.
an, Vice President; Aaron Haas, Score.
Try; A. w. Hill, Treasurer. The CAPT
Il stock isS3. 00O 900. with the privilege OF
ecreasing it to $40, 000,0 900. Work on the
liant will commence next week.
BOYS FATAL FALL.
This morning while Otis Bloodworth, o
byear-old boy, employed at Chamber
hin a. Johnson's dry goods establish ment
Whitehall street, was washing a win.
DIV in the second story on Hunter street,
slipped and fell TO the pavement, about
twenty-five feet below. His body struck
bunch OF telephone wires, which broke
le fall, or be would have been instantly
illed. He was carried into the store in
insensible condition. IL was found
lat his right temple was gashed, but
OF fractured, his collar bone broken and
thermal injuries sustained. Streams OF
hood gushed from his nose and mouth at
ttervals. de fingered in an unconscious
late until about 9 O'Clock tonight when
died. Heliyed on Joy street, and his
Ds,er is the widow OF the late JEFF
sEgorth, Of Griffin. He WAS the
eDBew Of l.. T. Bloodworth, manager OF
le Kimball House.